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From the 30th to the 31st of August Oren Shevlin will be guest at the Helsinki Festival. There he will be a soloist in the Finnish premiere of the play "Zimmermann Trio" by the Tero Saarinen Company. Written for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Helsinki Festival, the commissioned…

A lost work by the English composer Gerald Finzi was again discovered and recorded in a world premiere. Oren Shevlin is cellist of the Cologne Chamber Soloists. The CD will be released in early May by the label Dabringhaus & Grimm.…

"These are light and airy performances, with Oren Shevlin a poignant and intensely lyrical soloist in the Cello Concerto..." (BBC Music Magazine)
Oren Shevlin has recorded Schumann's Cello Concerto with the WDR Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Heinz Holliger, it is released since…

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Oren Shevlin was born in 1969 in Oldham, England, he studied with Raphael Sommer, Boris Pergamenschikow and Frans Helmerson, at Chethams School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He also, at various times, took lessons with Paul Tortelier, including an appearance on his BBC television masterclasses, playing Tortelier´s own Sonata.

He completed his studies at the Guildhall School of Music, London, and at the Hochschule für Musik, Cologne, both times with the highest honours. He was successful also at the “International Paulo Cello Competition” in Helsinki 1996 (2nd Prize) as well as at the Rostropovich Cello Competition with the 2nd Grand Prix in 2001. He was a recipient on two occasions of the “Suggia” award.

In addition to giving numerous Solo performances with the WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne (of which he has been principal cellist since 1998) he has performed as a soloist with orchestras including the Finnish Radio Symphony, Gürzenich, Moscow New Philharmonic, Helsinki…